The Sendmail Consortium, which manages deployment of the world's most popular message transfer agent (MTA) to handle email, was left scrambling over the weekend to fix a remotely exploitable vulnerability that could allow an attacker to gain control of a unpatched sendmail server.

IBM and AMD became the newest members of the UnitedLinux consortium this week. The two vendors were the first companies to be named as Technology Partners, giving them a ground floor position to add input into future versions.

UPDATE: At its eWorld 2002 developer conference in San Diego, the platform provider is releasing its new development framework, code-named 'Cajun.' Combined with its market-leading app server, BEA argues it has put together a formidable package.

As promised by Big Blue's push earlier this month when it made a huge splash into the Web server business (see IBM Unveils Next-Generation e-Business Server), IBM Monday announced a new line of eServer appliances, including Intel-based Linux and Windows Web-hosting appliance servers.